Full-Service Bookkeeping
Your bookkeeper tracks your agency's revenue and operating expenses, and shares results through easy-to-understand reporting.
Accounting for Professional Travel Agents
Optimize your travel agency's finances with expert accounting insights. Discover solutions for tax, currency, and revenue challenges.
400% ROI on average
from our services
Based on avg. tax refund per client
from our services
Based on avg. tax refund per client
Centralized accounting solutions for your travel agency
Full-Service Bookkeeping
Your bookkeeper tracks your agency's revenue and operating expenses, and shares results through easy-to-understand reporting.
Claim Every Eligible Deduction
CPAs and your accounting team identify deductions for travel agents, including advertising and home office expenses, to minimize your annual tax liability.
Tax Preparation and Filing
Your accountant prepares and files your federal and state tax returns for your travel agency, ensuring compliance and maximum tax savings.
Why you should choose 1-800Accountant
Whether you're a solo travel agent or the owner of an agency, it's essential to have a firm understanding of your financial position. When booking flights, managing currency fluctuations, and pursuing corporate payments leave little time for anything else, collaborating with tax professionals experienced in the nuances of the travel industry and your state is the best way forward. You'll save time, maintain compliance, and achieve better results, allowing you to keep a larger portion of your income.
Your accountant helps maximize your agency's performance
Your dedicated accountant understands your needs, navigates local and state requirements, and ensures long-term tax efficiency for your travel agency.
Industry-specific tax deductions help you keep more
We minimize your tax liability by tracking business-specific deductions, including supplies and mobile phone costs.
Year-round strategic support
Your tax advisor addresses questions related to your travel work, evaluates your business entity structure, and periodically optimizes tax strategy.
Packages & pricing
1-800Accountant has serviced over 100,000 businesses in the last decade. We'll keep your books in order and maximize your tax savings. Get the suite of tax services your business needs at a price that works for you.
Core Accounting
Best for businesses that need more advanced features, including tax filing and planning, to maximize their tax savings.
$249/mo
1-800Accountant has serviced over 100,000 businesses in the last decade. We'll keep your books in order and maximize your tax savings. Get the suite of tax services your business needs at a price that works for you.
Travel agents and agencies save the most with expert accounting services. Get started with an accountant today.
Customer spotlight
"I have been with 1-800Accountant for 10+ years, and my payroll experience with Fatima P. has been the best so far. Her professional and compassionate demeanor is unparalleled, and her follow-through is exceptional. I appreciate her help and dedication to my payroll account so much."
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Carrie Stone
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Frequently Asked Questions
1-800Accountant offers a suite of affordable, tax-deductible solutions for individual travel agents and larger agencies, including entity formation, EIN filing, business tax preparation, tax advisory, audit defense, quarterly estimated tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services. These professional services ensure your business has a minimal tax liability while maintaining compliance. Review our packages and pricing page for more information.
1-800Accountant's proprietary bookkeeping platform, ClientBooks, is compatible with leading accounting software, including QuickBooks Online, FreshBooks, and Wave. Our bookkeepers are fluent in these platforms, ensuring seamless integration and financial data management. ClientBooks features automation tools, including smart categorization, that save time by quickly categorizing your business expenses when you select the sync option. We also integrate with leading Global Distribution System providers, including Travelport and Amadeus.
1-800Accountant's professional accounting services are a good fit for both independent travel advisors and larger agencies. Your services and team scale with your operations as they expand, ensuring consistent support and expertise throughout your career in the travel industry. Our flat rate pricing, billed annually, provides maximum transparency.
Travel agencies operating across multiple jurisdictions must comply with applicable laws, regulations, and reporting requirements to remain operational and compliant in each jurisdiction. Managing VAT and sales tax variations, determining the applicable jurisdiction for each transaction, and balancing cross-border withholding considerations are just some of the challenges multijurisdictional travel agencies face. If your agency is grappling with these issues or is considering expansion, 1-800Accountant can support your ambitions.
International payments from a variety of clients, combined with fluctuating exchange rates, pose challenges for travel agencies, particularly those that handle their own recordkeeping. While using cloud-based accounting software that supports multiple currencies and automated exchange rate updates in real-time will help your agency manage these complexities, full-service bookkeeping solutions powered by real bookkeepers are optimal to address ongoing business accounting issues.
Outsourced accounting is a smart strategy for travel agencies facing unpredictable cash flow challenges, thanks to cost-effective services and specialized cash flow management solutions. If your agency faces this challenge, 1-800Accountant supports your business throughout the year with cash flow forecasting, budgeting, and monitoring, helping to stabilize your operations during difficult lean periods.
1-800Accountant can help reduce late payments from corporate clients by improving efficiency and streamlining your agency's financial processes. By upgrading invoicing and follow-up processes, enhancing credit and cash flow management, generating financial statements, and providing accounts receivable and collections support, we help ensure more timely payments from corporate clients while preserving valuable business relationships.
Tax deductions reduce your agency's taxable income. When you trust 1-800Accountant with your travel agency's complex financial work, your dedicated team will evaluate your unique tax situation and select every eligible tax deduction on your behalf. Your team will also evaluate other aspects of your agency, including an entity structure analysis, to minimize tax liability throughout the year.
Outsourced accounting solutions and in-house accounting teams can produce great results for your travel agency. While 1-800Accountant's services are transparent, affordable, and tax-deductible, which is a significant advantage over in-house employees, your designated accounting team won't be in your office, which can be a disadvantage to agency leads who prefer the unfettered access of an in-house team. In-house teams, however, cost significantly more than outsourced accounting services, which is often seen as a disadvantage that has contributed to the popularity of virtual accounting solutions.
Revenue impact analysis, profit margin evaluation, cash flow analysis, and financial reporting are among the actions your designated 1-800Accountant team will conduct to assess the financial impact of exchange rate fluctuations on your travel agency's profitability. Once completed, your team provides results with easy-to-understand reporting and analysis, ensuring smooth implementation.
Our team of accounting professionals stays up to date on financial regulations affecting travel agencies. This is achieved by proactively leveraging industry-specific resources, engaging with professional travel agent networks, and monitoring local and global tax developments, among other tactics, to ensure our accounting professionals stay current with the complex, ever-changing regulatory landscape affecting your operations.